Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-04-16
CURIOUS COMBINATIONS

Sixth Auditor McConville returned to
the Treasury Department the other day
from trip to Florida, and the first thing
he did, it is stated, after sitting down in
his chair was to order the discharge of a
clerk named Holland, who lad been
sick and offended Deputy HARRISON BY
taking cup of tea during working
hours for the purpose Of stimulating his
tired brain. When the facts became
known to Secretary Fairchild he not on
ly ordered the mans restoration, but
granted him leave of absence to rest
and recover from his sickness.
There is a scarcity of applicants Ito
enter the medical corps of the navy.
This is due to the fact that an assistant
surgeon in the navy, which is the lowest
grade in the corps, has the rank and pay
only OF an ensign, while a corresponding
officer in the army has the rank and pay
of captain. Because of the greater de-
sire of young physicians to enter the
army instead Of the navy, there are at
the present time, and have been for
nearly two years, 10 vacancies in the
corps. The Surgeon General will make
an effort to have Congress ct the next
session change the law so as to offer
greater inducements to those who are in
clined to doctor Uncle Sans sailor bows,
An indiscriminate slaughter of young
calves from one hour to three days old
and shipped to New York. where they
are put up as canned chicken, is being
carried on quite extensively in this and
Herkimer county, says the Utica "Press. :"
ly large number is being shipped con-
stantly from Poland, Herkimer county.
A well-known authority on the matter
writing from that place says: "There are
5000 young calves, from one hour to
two days old, shipped from this station
every spring, and in the town of New
port, just below, the shipment is equally
IS great. Recently these farmers, who
turn up their noses at oieomargsrine,
commenced shipping 'bobs' by the New
York and West Shore Railroad, thus
wedding landing in Now York.
The offerings which the Pope will re-
ceive on the oc .asion of his sacerdotal
jubilee will be of the most varied and
costly kind, and from all lands. The
Sultan has already forwarded by the
Armenian Patriarch, Peter Anthony X,
his superb gift of q ring in brilliant 8, es-
timated at value of over "a, 900. The
Empress of China and the Queen Re-
gent of Spain will also send presents of
splendid character. The Emperor
William is having q piece of rich jews
elry made at Berlin for a like purpose.
1t has already been stated that Quee n
Victoria's gift will take the form of q
Sumptuously bound copy of the "Vul.
gate" President Grevy, notwithstand-
ing his recent offering, will. according
to the semi. official French paper, send
another serves vase and inkstand. At
quite another end of the world and of
The social scale Padre Antonio Riccardi,
one of Dom Bosco's missionaries in
Patagonia, writes from Carmen tina. the
various Indian tribes of the Rio Negro
are engaged in preparing several objects
of native make and use as their offering
to the Sovereign Pontiff; and these
curious articles are destined to figure in
the forthcoming Vatican exhibition side
by side with the princely gifts of East
ern and Western potentates.